Denatured alcohol



'latented 0a. 15, 1940 2,2l8,233 DENATURED monor.

Louis J. Fizz, In, Kingsport, Tenm, assignor to Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, N. Y., a corporation oi New Jersey No Drawing. Application October 23, 1937, Serial No. 170,661

1 Claim.

This invention relates to the denaturing of ethyl alcohol, and to alcohol so denatured.

It is an object of my invention to provide a denaturant which will render ethyl alcohol containing it unfit for use as a beverage,- which cannot be economically removed from the alcohol by any known methods, which will not render the alcohol lmflt for industrial uses in which de- 'natured alcohol has customarily been employed,

and which will be free from-methanol. Other objects will hereinafter appear.

I have discovered that monobenzylamlne is an efiectlve denaturant for alcohol. In denaturing ethyl alcohol with my novel denaturant, I'may usefrom 0.5 to 5 parts of monobenzylamine, or even more, per 100 parts of 95% alcohol. Monobenzylamine may be used alone in denaturing, or it may be used in conjunction with any other denaturants with which it may be found to be compatible.

What I claim as my invention and desire to be secured by Letters Patent of the United States is: Industrial ethyl alcohol denatured with 0.5 to

5 parts of monobenzylamine, as an essential denaturing element, per 100 parts of 95% ethyl alcohol. Y

- LOUIS J. FIGG, Jr. 

